Zelinda
Italian folk tale
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Snow White and Rose Red
German fairy tale
Yemọja
Yoruba water orisha of the oceans and rivers
Catalina of Dumaguete
Heroine of the island of Negros in the Philippines
Camilla, Queen of the Volscians
Amazon queen of the Volscians
Atalanta
Greece The following is excerpted from “Female Warriors: Memorials of Female Valour and Heroism, from the Mythological Ages to the Present Era,” by Ellen C. Clayton (Mrs. Needham), published in […]
Nafanua
Nafanua was an ancient Samoan war goddess and ali’i, or chief. Her peaceful conduct of politics influenced the modern used of the fono communal meeting place for the fa’amatai system of decentralised government.
Draupadi
India This article, written by Naomi Appleton, has been republished with permission from the Dangerous Women Project, created by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University […]
Semiramis
Legendary queen of Assyria
Molly Whuppie
The giant’s wife begged that Molly would take her up into the sack till she would see what Molly saw. So Molly took the shears and cut a hole in the sack, and took out the needle and thread with her, and jumped down and helped, the giant’s wife up into the sack, and sewed up the hole.